About to send in my first COMC batch

crazy4kinsler · 05-13-2018, 07:40 PM

I'm getting ready to send in my first batch of cards to COMC. I know it takes a few weeks to get them listed, etc. So I'm willing and ready to wait. But it's cards (game used, autos, refractors, inserts, HOFers, etc.) I'm going to list for like 25 cents just to move them.

I've got them sleeved and boxed up and ready to go to COMC. The only question I have is this. Do I pay for them now? Or do I want and pay when they get listed? I know some of them are from 2018, so they're priced differently than 2017 and older. I even have a few vintage cards in there I'm sending. Again, it's just stuff I want to get rid of and trade them for a nice vintage card or something for one of my older sets.

So that's the only question I have. Otherwise, I have them sleeved and in a box and am about to put a label on it.

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2018, 07:51 PM

DON'T DO THIS.

crazy4kinsler · 05-13-2018, 07:53 PM

Don't do what? Send cards in? Or send in lower end cards? Or what?

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Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

DON'T DO THIS.

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2018, 08:18 PM

Don't send in cards that are worthless. Plow your money into premium's sale going on right now and go through the quarter cards for ones you can resell for $1.50. It is NUTZ!!!

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2018, 08:19 PM

Cheaper than the 30 cents submission costs and the cards are ready to reprice immediately.

Branesergen · 05-13-2018, 08:21 PM

Yeah I agree. May want to rethink it for a minute. 2018 break down and send in as current year basic. It will still cost 30 cents per. The older stuff send in trading cards basic and it will still cost 30 cents each. You'd be better off dumping the quarter cards elsewhere because doing it the way it sounds like you're doing it is paying someone to take your cards. AKA spending $300 to make $100.

crazy4kinsler · 05-13-2018, 08:26 PM

Thanks for the tip. I don't really use COMC. In fact, I just got a shipment of about 50 or so cards in. Most had been sitting in my ready to ship file for months or even a year or more.

But I'll go to the quarter section and see what I can find.

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Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

Don't send in cards that are worthless. Plow your money into premium's sale going on right now and go through the quarter cards for ones you can resell for $1.50. It is NUTZ!!!

I didn't realize it was 30 cents per. Guess I would have to list them at 35-40 cents. Crap. Let me take a look and see which will sell for that. As I said, I'm just getting rid of them and moving them into some type of vintage card. Even if I sell the for 10 cent profit, I'm sending 400 or so in. So I'd make $40 and can use that to buy a star vintage card I need.

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Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

Cheaper than the 30 cents submission costs and the cards are ready to reprice immediately.

I'd have to pay 2 sepearte shipping charges right? Or just send in 1 batch and designate which are to which? As I said, I don't care if I make 10 cents per card. At least I make something and can use it for something worthwhile instead of just taking up space or tossing out, which is my other option.

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Originally Posted by Branesergen

Yeah I agree. May want to rethink it for a minute. 2018 break down and send in as current year basic. It will still cost 30 cents per. The older stuff send in trading cards basic and it will still cost 30 cents each. You'd be better off dumping the quarter cards elsewhere because doing it the way it sounds like you're doing it is paying someone to take your cards. AKA spending $300 to make $100.

1yunggun · 05-13-2018, 08:26 PM

I agree with all the advice given. Don't send it the cheap stuff to make a quarter, you will lose. Been there, done that! Also realize that even if you might be able to make a quarter now and if there are too many copies of the card on site, it will be a race to the bottom.

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2018, 08:34 PM

I will give you $10 in COMC store credit if you throw your cards in the recycling bin.

Just reprice a card at $10 and send me the link and then show a picture of your cards in the recycling bin.

crazy4kinsler · 05-13-2018, 08:49 PM

I don't have any cards listed on COMC at this point. I have never sent any in, and I just got my shipment in the other day of all the cards I had bought over the years.

It's really no big deal anyway as no one has even answered my question that I started this whole thing for. I'll figure out pricing when I get them listed and ready to sell. Depends on what kind of mood I'm in.

But the biggest thing I needed to know is do I need to send a MO with the order or wait until they're all uploaded and ready to go and send a paypal payment?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

I will give you $10 in COMC store credit if you throw your cards in the recycling bin.

Just reprice a card at $10 and send me the link and then show a picture of your cards in the recycling bin.

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2018, 08:50 PM

Put money in your account. Then it will get debited as the cards get processed.

shrevecity · 05-13-2018, 08:50 PM

Its one thing to send in a few cards that will sell for less than submission you can make it up on other cards in the sub, but sending a full sub that way will kill you.

YOu can send cards at different service levels in the same package if you choose to do so

YOu will need some credit for the first ones to be added. They will be added in clusters and you will have to pay for each cluster as they are uploaded. Once you have credit in there you are usually safe from ever having to send more in. Used to be they would allow you to go into negative but they stopped that a while back.

What I did on the account I am using now, I sent in 20 cards that would go in to 10 dollar range via modern select at 60cents each and added 10.00 via Paypal. They popped and most sold quickly I had around 100.00 in the account and have never had to add a dime since.

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2018, 08:52 PM

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showth...54634&page=160
Did you forget you asked the same question a couple of days ago and got advice?

crazy4kinsler · 05-13-2018, 08:56 PM

Thanks for this information. That's what I was looking for. I am sending in a couple of other cards that should bring in $5-$10 (a couple of extra Tyrell Jenkins autos, a Mantle AS card, a Mike Young auto, etc.). So that will help offset.

The others are just stuff I can't move at neither the LCS nor here. So they're sitting there collecting dust. If I can get something for them (10 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, $1, whatever), I'm just going to use it to buy more vintage for my sets.

So thanks everyone for the tips and advice. It's been very helpful, and I'll definitely look over what I'm sending in to make sure it's going to net me at least something.

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Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

Put money in your account. Then it will get debited as the cards get processed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by shrevecity

Its one thing to send in a few cards that will sell for less than submission you can make it up on other cards in the sub, but sending a full sub that way will kill you.

YOu can send cards at different service levels in the same package if you choose to do so

YOu will need some credit for the first ones to be added. They will be added in clusters and you will have to pay for each cluster as they are uploaded. Once you have credit in there you are usually safe from ever having to send more in.

crazy4kinsler · 05-13-2018, 08:58 PM

I did actually. I can't remember where I post or when I post sometimes if it's not my thread. At least I can see what threads I've started. If I couldn't do that, I'd really be up a creek without a boat. Just part of getting old I guess, haha.

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Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showth...54634&page=160
Did you forget you asked the same question a couple of days ago and got advice?

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2018, 09:09 PM

Sounds good. I thought you were ignoring the advice, that's why I came in hot with the caps lock. ;-)

Branesergen · 05-13-2018, 09:40 PM

Be sure to check a few. I know there are people who think a card is worth a quarter only to realize there's 42 of them on comc for 7 cents. I know what you want to do, I'm doing the same thing, it's great to get "free money" from junk so just make sure you have enough that will sell to cover not only your submission costs but also your shipping costs. It's not like you're thinking, you hear all the great stuff in a centrally located area (here) but you dont hear of the hundreds of cards that sit there and never sell. It's kind of like the flipping thread - you hear of all these great flips for $1000 in profit but you dont here they spent $2000 in cards that re still sitting there.

mintacular · 05-14-2018, 06:45 AM

Besides the .30 listing fee, also consider you will need to ship your cards to them and over time storage fees after 90 days began .01, so think more like .35 per card. Here's the other kicker, the first time a card gets listed there is a .25 listing fee that yes gets paid by the buyer technically, it will price your quarter card .25 higher than others on the site that have been flipped already and will not have that higher cost built in. Also, don't forget your original acquisition cost for your card, I'm sure your quarter card cost you .05 or .10 originally or whatever. Additionally, your plan to buy a "nice" card with your money made is harder set than done as most of these are overpriced at COMC. So if you cash out, which may happen, you are hit with another 20% fee. Back to the immediate topic at hand....

So for example. Let's take a $1.00 card, we'll say a EX condition 1975 Topps Rod Carew. Let's say you got a good deal on it at .25

You send it in for .30 + .05 to ship/possible storage fee, + your acquisition card we'll say .25, then the initial .25 listing fee, and let's ASSUME you get a buyer to pay $1.00 .75 + .25 listing fee. You've now pocketed .10 on this dollar card you bought for .25. If you would cash out you would actually lose money .10 to be exact. AND this assumes you don't select the eBay/amazon option so that would actually be ANOTHER 20% off.

In short, there are millions of dollar cards that SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SENT TO COMC if this simple math is understaood please don't add to the pile!!!!!

Budler · 05-14-2018, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by mintacular

Besides the .30 listing fee, also consider you will need to ship your cards to them and over time storage fees after 90 days began .01, so think more like .35 per card. Here's the other kicker, the first time a card gets listed there is a .25 listing fee that yes gets paid by the buyer technically, it will price your quarter card .25 higher than others on the site that have been flipped already and will not have that higher cost built in. Also, don't forget your original acquisition cost for your card, I'm sure your quarter card cost you .05 or .10 originally or whatever. Additionally, your plan to buy a "nice" card with your money made is harder set than done as most of these are overpriced at COMC. So if you cash out, which may happen, you are hit with another 20% fee. Back to the immediate topic at hand....

So for example. Let's take a $1.00 card, we'll say a EX condition 1975 Topps Rod Carew. Let's say you got a good deal on it at .25

You send it in for .30 + .05 to ship/possible storage fee, + your acquisition card we'll say .25, then the initial .25 listing fee, and let's ASSUME you get a buyer to pay $1.00 .75 + .25 listing fee. You've now pocketed .10 on this dollar card you bought for .25. If you would cash out you would actually lose money .10 to be exact. AND this assumes you don't select the eBay/amazon option so that would actually be ANOTHER 20% off.

In short, there are millions of dollar cards that SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SENT TO COMC if this simple math is understaood please don't add to the pile!!!!!

This is one reason I'm getting frustrated at COMC. As I buyer I'm paying a dollar for a card the seller is getting .10 of it. As I'm a buyer of mainly commons and cheap cards. Plus trying to find cards The new sorting set up is helpful but just going through 1000s of cards that I have that's way to long.

The sellers have to add in to their asking price: their cost of card, shipping to , processing fee, profit, check out fee, Then I get hit with .25 handling per card plus 3.99. (that is .04 if I ship 100 cards as I do). Yes I get 5.00 for next month but that makes me buy more cards.

I was told a while back that they would love to get rid of all the cards under 1.00 but it was almost impossible with the shipping cost, He stated they would like to just sell cards over 2.00 value and get out of the common business.

mjohnatgt · 05-14-2018, 10:19 AM

They claimed that, but signed the contract to host epack...

sabrgeek · 05-14-2018, 11:50 AM

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checkoutmydeals · 05-14-2018, 02:45 PM

Here's the other kicker, the first time a card gets listed there is a .25 listing fee that yes gets paid by the buyer technically, it will price your quarter card .25 higher than others on the site that have been flipped already and will not have that higher cost built in.

I am unfamiliar with any such fee. Any card which COMC ships will incur a handling charge of 25 cents. However, if you are looking at the prices in "Advanced Reseller Mode", you will not see the fee, and you will not pay the fee until you ship. If you look at the site in "Simplified Shipping Mode" (which is the default), you will pay the fee as you buy the card.

However, COMC does not add a fee the first time your item sells. If you are looking in Simplified Shipping Mode, you pay the fee when you buy the item. If you are looking in Advanced Reseller Mode, you pay the fee when you have the item shipped.

COMC James · 05-14-2018, 04:19 PM

Just to add to some of the information that is being distributed in this thread, our Customer Service Team strongly urges anyone making a first time submission to do some homework and glance over the prices of some of items already on the site that you are considering sending in. We always recommend that you only submit items that you can price to sell for at least $1 or more.

To improve your experience if you intend to submit thousands of cards to sell through COMC, we recommend that you comb through your submission and only send the best or most expensive 100-300 cards initially. Once you began generating sales and build up store credit from your initial batch, you should be able to submit more items in bulk without having to worry about a large out-of-pocket up front cost of consignment fees.

shrevecity · 05-14-2018, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mintacular

Besides the .30 listing fee, also consider you will need to ship your cards to them and over time storage fees after 90 days began .01, so think more like .35 per card. Here's the other kicker, the first time a card gets listed there is a .25 listing fee that yes gets paid by the buyer technically, it will price your quarter card .25 higher than others on the site that have been flipped already and will not have that higher cost built in. Also, don't forget your original acquisition cost for your card, I'm sure your quarter card cost you .05 or .10 originally or whatever. Additionally, your plan to buy a "nice" card with your money made is harder set than done as most of these are overpriced at COMC. So if you cash out, which may happen, you are hit with another 20% fee. Back to the immediate topic at hand....

So for example. Let's take a $1.00 card, we'll say a EX condition 1975 Topps Rod Carew. Let's say you got a good deal on it at .25

You send it in for .30 + .05 to ship/possible storage fee, + your acquisition card we'll say .25, then the initial .25 listing fee, and let's ASSUME you get a buyer to pay $1.00 .75 + .25 listing fee. You've now pocketed .10 on this dollar card you bought for .25. If you would cash out you would actually lose money .10 to be exact. AND this assumes you don't select the eBay/amazon option so that would actually be ANOTHER 20% off.

In short, there are millions of dollar cards that SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SENT TO COMC if this simple math is understaood please don't add to the pile!!!!!

There is no extra fee unless you are buying the card and having it shipped then the 25 cents is applied, that is with ANY card. Depending on what buying mode you are in. If you are buying for flips and not in advanced you are screwing yourself because you will get hit with that 25 cents on every purchase up front.

Budler · 05-14-2018, 07:01 PM

"Once you began generating sales and build up store credit from your initial batch, you should be able to submit more items in bulk without having to worry about a large out-of-pocket up front cost of consignment fees. "

This also will help on If you plan to cash out. Spending credit for processing fee (get 20% more) then out of pocket payment then cashing out.

COMC James I think the site could explain things a little better. As you see there are a lot of posts here about sending in cards to the site.

05-13-2018, 07:40 PM	#1
crazy4kinsler Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 16,295	About to send in my first COMC batch I'm getting ready to send in my first batch of cards to COMC. I know it takes a few weeks to get them listed, etc. So I'm willing and ready to wait. But it's cards (game used, autos, refractors, inserts, HOFers, etc.) I'm going to list for like 25 cents just to move them. I've got them sleeved and boxed up and ready to go to COMC. The only question I have is this. Do I pay for them now? Or do I want and pay when they get listed? I know some of them are from 2018, so they're priced differently than 2017 and older. I even have a few vintage cards in there I'm sending. Again, it's just stuff I want to get rid of and trade them for a nice vintage card or something for one of my older sets. So that's the only question I have. Otherwise, I have them sleeved and in a box and am about to put a label on it. __________________ Twitter & Instagram: @et_cardcollectr Just created a new Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=et_cardcollectr Last edited by crazy4kinsler; 05-13-2018 at 07:52 PM.

05-13-2018, 08:21 PM	#6
Branesergen Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Montgomery Texas Posts: 6,901 Branesergen	Yeah I agree. May want to rethink it for a minute. 2018 break down and send in as current year basic. It will still cost 30 cents per. The older stuff send in trading cards basic and it will still cost 30 cents each. You'd be better off dumping the quarter cards elsewhere because doing it the way it sounds like you're doing it is paying someone to take your cards. AKA spending $300 to make $100. __________________ I will never buy a used car. I knew this one guy who bought a used car once and 10 years later...BAM!...Herpes. Did you eat the whole bowl of stupid this morning??

05-13-2018, 08:34 PM	#9
mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,605 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	I will give you $10 in COMC store credit if you throw your cards in the recycling bin. Just reprice a card at $10 and send me the link and then show a picture of your cards in the recycling bin. Last edited by mjohnatgt; 05-13-2018 at 08:37 PM.

05-13-2018, 08:50 PM	#12
shrevecity Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 28,059	Its one thing to send in a few cards that will sell for less than submission you can make it up on other cards in the sub, but sending a full sub that way will kill you. YOu can send cards at different service levels in the same package if you choose to do so YOu will need some credit for the first ones to be added. They will be added in clusters and you will have to pay for each cluster as they are uploaded. Once you have credit in there you are usually safe from ever having to send more in. Used to be they would allow you to go into negative but they stopped that a while back. What I did on the account I am using now, I sent in 20 cards that would go in to 10 dollar range via modern select at 60cents each and added 10.00 via Paypal. They popped and most sold quickly I had around 100.00 in the account and have never had to add a dime since. Last edited by shrevecity; 05-13-2018 at 08:55 PM.

05-13-2018, 09:40 PM	#17
Branesergen Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Montgomery Texas Posts: 6,901 Branesergen	Be sure to check a few. I know there are people who think a card is worth a quarter only to realize there's 42 of them on comc for 7 cents. I know what you want to do, I'm doing the same thing, it's great to get "free money" from junk so just make sure you have enough that will sell to cover not only your submission costs but also your shipping costs. It's not like you're thinking, you hear all the great stuff in a centrally located area (here) but you dont hear of the hundreds of cards that sit there and never sell. It's kind of like the flipping thread - you hear of all these great flips for $1000 in profit but you dont here they spent $2000 in cards that re still sitting there. __________________ I will never buy a used car. I knew this one guy who bought a used car once and 10 years later...BAM!...Herpes. Did you eat the whole bowl of stupid this morning??

05-13-2018, 07:51 PM	#2
mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,605 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	DON'T DO THIS.

05-13-2018, 08:18 PM	#4
mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,605 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	Don't send in cards that are worthless. Plow your money into premium's sale going on right now and go through the quarter cards for ones you can resell for $1.50. It is NUTZ!!!

05-13-2018, 08:19 PM	#5
mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,605 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	Cheaper than the 30 cents submission costs and the cards are ready to reprice immediately.

05-13-2018, 08:26 PM	#8
1yunggun Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: Barron, WI Posts: 3,974 1yunggun 1yunggun	I agree with all the advice given. Don't send it the cheap stuff to make a quarter, you will lose. Been there, done that! Also realize that even if you might be able to make a quarter now and if there are too many copies of the card on site, it will be a race to the bottom.

05-13-2018, 08:52 PM	#13
mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,605 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	https://www.blowoutforums.com/showth...54634&page=160 Did you forget you asked the same question a couple of days ago and got advice?

05-13-2018, 09:09 PM	#16
mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,605 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	Sounds good. I thought you were ignoring the advice, that's why I came in hot with the caps lock. ;-)

05-14-2018, 06:45 AM	#18
mintacular Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: USA Posts: 311 thatguy822 thatguy822	.25 Besides the .30 listing fee, also consider you will need to ship your cards to them and over time storage fees after 90 days began .01, so think more like .35 per card. Here's the other kicker, the first time a card gets listed there is a .25 listing fee that yes gets paid by the buyer technically, it will price your quarter card .25 higher than others on the site that have been flipped already and will not have that higher cost built in. Also, don't forget your original acquisition cost for your card, I'm sure your quarter card cost you .05 or .10 originally or whatever. Additionally, your plan to buy a "nice" card with your money made is harder set than done as most of these are overpriced at COMC. So if you cash out, which may happen, you are hit with another 20% fee. Back to the immediate topic at hand.... So for example. Let's take a $1.00 card, we'll say a EX condition 1975 Topps Rod Carew. Let's say you got a good deal on it at .25 You send it in for .30 + .05 to ship/possible storage fee, + your acquisition card we'll say .25, then the initial .25 listing fee, and let's ASSUME you get a buyer to pay $1.00 .75 + .25 listing fee. You've now pocketed .10 on this dollar card you bought for .25. If you would cash out you would actually lose money .10 to be exact. AND this assumes you don't select the eBay/amazon option so that would actually be ANOTHER 20% off. In short, there are millions of dollar cards that SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SENT TO COMC if this simple math is understaood please don't add to the pile!!!!!

05-14-2018, 10:19 AM	#20
mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,605 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	They claimed that, but signed the contract to host epack...

05-14-2018, 11:50 AM	#21
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05-14-2018, 02:45 PM	#22
checkoutmydeals Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 3,040 king-collect checkoutmydeals	Here's the other kicker, the first time a card gets listed there is a .25 listing fee that yes gets paid by the buyer technically, it will price your quarter card .25 higher than others on the site that have been flipped already and will not have that higher cost built in. I am unfamiliar with any such fee. Any card which COMC ships will incur a handling charge of 25 cents. However, if you are looking at the prices in "Advanced Reseller Mode", you will not see the fee, and you will not pay the fee until you ship. If you look at the site in "Simplified Shipping Mode" (which is the default), you will pay the fee as you buy the card. However, COMC does not add a fee the first time your item sells. If you are looking in Simplified Shipping Mode, you pay the fee when you buy the item. If you are looking in Advanced Reseller Mode, you pay the fee when you have the item shipped.

05-14-2018, 04:19 PM	#23
COMC James Banned Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Redmond, WA Posts: 259 comc_consignment Staff	Just to add to some of the information that is being distributed in this thread, our Customer Service Team strongly urges anyone making a first time submission to do some homework and glance over the prices of some of items already on the site that you are considering sending in. We always recommend that you only submit items that you can price to sell for at least $1 or more. To improve your experience if you intend to submit thousands of cards to sell through COMC, we recommend that you comb through your submission and only send the best or most expensive 100-300 cards initially. Once you began generating sales and build up store credit from your initial batch, you should be able to submit more items in bulk without having to worry about a large out-of-pocket up front cost of consignment fees.

05-14-2018, 07:01 PM	#25
Budler Member Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Longmont, Co Posts: 1,523 budler	"Once you began generating sales and build up store credit from your initial batch, you should be able to submit more items in bulk without having to worry about a large out-of-pocket up front cost of consignment fees. " This also will help on If you plan to cash out. Spending credit for processing fee (get 20% more) then out of pocket payment then cashing out. COMC James I think the site could explain things a little better. As you see there are a lot of posts here about sending in cards to the site. __________________ Looking for ALL players from Nebraska. Pro/College uniforms (mainly ones I do not have)